Family Living

The Hardin County Players are having open auditions this week for their upcoming holiday season performance of "Miracle On 34th Street: Radio Play.”
Auditions will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 12 and Thursday, Sept. 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. and again on Sunday, Sept. 17 from 2 to 4 p.m.

The Dairy Association sponsored Thursday’s Dish Day at the fair with a pastries theme. Participants were asked to enter items other than pies and responded with eight entries. First place went to Tori Geib with a Chai Caramel Tiramisu. The judge selected Jeanette Piper’s Filled Pastry Ring as the second place winner. Third place was awarded to Lori Paul for …

The Elks Ladies Card Club met on Thursday, Aug. 16. The hostess for Bridge was Anne Boston Smith, and the hostesses for Shoot the Moon were Barb McQuown and Judy Sallee.
The decorations on the table were school supplies, and the menu was croissants with ham, turkey or beef with cheese and chips, sherbet and a cookie.

ADA — The Ada Jr. Beta Club is participating in a project called “Adopt a Classroom.” This is a way of helping classrooms in Texas that have been affected by Hurricane Harvey. The club will be collecting money donations at the Ada home football game on Friday, Sept. 8. All money collected will go toward purchasing items that a classroom …

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ADA — When Rhett Grant arrived to lead the Ada Public Library last summer, he hit the ground running.
The summer reading program was to begin in a few days and he was moving his belongings into a new home, but the gorilla in the room was the start of the remodeling of the facility.

During the burial portion of a funeral on Thursday, mourners chose to pay tribute to the deceased by closing down a major highway and squealing their tires on the pavement.
It marked the second time such a display of anger or grief has taken place in Hardin County and Sheriff Keith Everhart said it won’t be tolerated a third time.

A Kenton man who authorities say was the leader of a group of five men who invaded a Kenton home in September was sent to prison for more than eight years earlier this week in a case heard in Hardin County Common Pleas Court.
According to court records from Prosecutor Brad Bailey’s office, Peyton William George, 608 N. Main St., Kenton, pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, two counts of felony assault and grand theft with a firearms specification.